Condominium advice for Pattaya and Jomtien Beach, Thailand

Because I live close to Pattaya and Jomtien Beach here in Thailand and know the whole place pretty well, I have often been asked for advice on where I think is best to rent or buy a condominium in the area. Well, I have to say that in all honesty I think the very best place is View Talay 2 in Jomtien Beach, especially building A although the other building, B, is also very nice.

The main reasons why I like that condominium complex more than any other are because it is a quiet, friendly and well-maintained complex, it is bright, spacious and airy so you always feel relaxed, and both buildings have lots of shops and facilities on site including huge swimming pools each with poolside bar/restaurants.

Combined with all that is the fact that it is excellent value for money considering it is so close to everything the area has to offer: it is a 5 minute quick walk or 10 minute gentle stroll to both Jomtien and Dongtan beaches (or two minutes by baht bus), the same to Jomtien market and all the local bars and restaurants, and it is also right next to the main baht bus route into Pattaya city with all it's world-famous tourist attractions and nightlife, with such a journey typically taking about 10 minutes to the southern end of the city where Walking Street starts.

So all-in-all it is, in my opinion, the best place to rent or buy a condo in the whole Pattaya/Jomtien bay area for enjoying a lovely stay in one of the world's best holiday destinations!

Here are a few links to websites with more information and condos to rent in the complex (which I have no affiliation with, by the way):

View Talay 2 Condo, Jomtien

View Talay 2 Condos for Rent

YouTube and FlashyOnlineGames.com updates

I have added some new videos to my YouTube channel today, and even more Flash online games have been added to our FlashyOnlineGames.com site:

YouTube: Disney and Pixar from a Thai Perspective

FlashyOnlineGames.com: DreamWorks Animation games

Even more FlashyOnlineGames.com updates

Even more great free Flash online games have been added to our FlashyOnlineGames.com site:

Disney Flash online games

Pixar Flash online games

More FlashyOnlineGames.com updates

There have been some more updates to our FlashyOnlineGames.com site, with even more great new games added. See these posts on the FlashyOnlineGames.com blog for more details:

Flash games based on TV cartoon shows

More Flash games based on classic cartoons

Happy Friday the 13th!

I hope you keep safe today! :-)

My husband Peter has posted about some fun Friday the 13th horror-themed online games over on his blog.

Some good reading for game-playing

If you like playing Flash games here are a few posts in the FlashyOnlineGames.com blog that list the best games in our MarioWebGames.com and SonicWebGames.com sites - we think you will enjoy them all:

Mario and Sonic games - Part 1

Mario and Sonic games - Part 2

Mario and Sonic games - Part 3

There are also lots more entertaining Flash games in our Disney and Pixar games site.

FlashyOnlineGames.com updates

There have been some major updates to our FlashyOnlineGames.com site, with lots and lots of fun new games added. See these posts on the FlashyOnlineGames.com blog for more details:

Sonic and Mario games

Classic retro computer and arcade games

The FlashyOnlineGames.com site keeps on getting better!

A list of all our online game sites

If you like playing free family-friendly games in your computer's web browser, then you will really like our 4 flash online game sites:

Disney and Pixar Games

DreamWorks and Blue Sky Games

Mario and Sonic Games

All Kinds of Flash Games

Happy Christmas......

......and all the very best wishes to you for 2013 (or 2556 as the Thai year will be)!

FlashyOnlineGames.com wallpaper pictures

In addition to the Flash online games collection in our recently launched FlashyOnlineGames.com site, there is also a large collection of wallpaper background pictures related to many of the games.

You can take a look at a gallery of all the wallpaper pictures here: FlashyOnlineGames.com Movie & Game Wallpapers

I am using Facebook more than blogging

Because I don't have much spare time at the moment, being a new mother and all, I am using my Facebook account via my mobile phone for writing most of my online thoughts for the time being, so there will be a bit less stuff on this blog for a while.

Bye Mum and Dad!

My husband Peter's parents, Anne and John, were here in Thailand for almost 4 weeks and they went back home to England yesterday. It was so lovely to see them here, and I know they were so happy to see their new baby granddaughter Lily!

To Anne and John, Mum and Dad: Hope you had a wonderful time here, and hope you get back home safely. We all loved having you here with us and hope you come back soon! Love from Su, Peter, Lily, Boss and Nong. XXX

We have a new Flash games website now

It is called FlashyOnlineGames.com, and it is a collection of all the best games from around the web, organised into sections of related games to make it easy to find everything.

See this post over in the FlashyOnlineGames.com blog for more details about it: The FlashyOnlineGames.com site is live now!

At home with my new baby daughter

I gave birth to my beautiful baby girl, Lily Anne Inns, on June 26th, but I didn't get out of hospital and back home with her until last week. All is well with all of us. I don't have much spare time to do any real blogging just now, so please read Peter's blog posts about everything that happened, and to see some photos of Lily:

New-born Lily and Lily comes home

Happy New Year!

Happy 2555, which is the Thai year this year. I'm 3 months pregnant so it will be an exciting year for us!

A change of lifestyle

I have now moved to Jomtien Beach near Pattaya with my husband and we plan to make this a permanent move - see his post about it for more details.

Photos of our recent England trip

Peter and I went to England on holiday for a month from the middle of September to the middle of this month. It was the first time I had been there, and it was wonderful, although a little bit cold, lol.

I have put a collection of photos from our holiday into Picasa, and you can view them here if you wish:

England Trip 2011

Cars 2 and Lightning McQueen online games

I recently saw Pixar's new film "Cars 2" with my husband and son, and I quite enjoyed it, it was very funny. It wasn't as good as last year's Toy story 3, but then not much is really, is it? :-)

My husband has written a detailed post about the movie, including related Cars 2 online games, in his blog. It features 12 official Cars and Lightning McQueen Flash games, including these 4 that are my favourites:

  Cars: Lightning McQueen's Desert Dash

  Cars: Tractor Tipping

  Cars: Radiator Springs Racing Demo

  Cars: Mater to the Rescue!

(See also here)

I'm now on Newgrounds

I've joined Peter on the Newgrounds Flash Portal site. You can view my new profile here: Su Inns at Newgrounds

New Paper Mario World 2 Flash online game

Paper Mario World 2, the sequel to the very popular first Paper Mario World game, was released just over two weeks ago in the MarioSonicGames.com website.

It features a combination of gameplay elements from Nintendo's "Super Paper Mario" and "Super Mario World" games, and it is proving to be a big hit with visitors to the site. Why not have a play of it yourself by clicking on the link above?

Happy New Year 2011 from Thailand!

สวัสดีปีใหม่ ปี 2554!

Christmas games you can play online

For some of the best Christmas-themed Flash online games you'll ever play, have a look at this list that my husband has just compiled:

Flash online games based on Christmas movies

Still here!

Haven't posted anything for a while because I haven't had anything to report - life here in Thailand is quiet but fine. It's the cool season here now until March, with temperatures ranging from around 18ºC to 30ºC. Perfect weather, not too hot and not too cold.

A special birthday wish

Yesterday my friend Anne-Marie gave birth to her new daughter Ria. Congratulations Anne-Marie!!!

Lots of love to you, Ria and Eric, and here's wishing a very long and happy life for Ria. From Su and Peter.

A complete list of our websites

We run a few different free fun and games websites, and they are:

MarioSonicGames.com

Dan-Dare.org
(which includes the Disney.Dan-Dare.org
and the DreamWorks.Dan-Dare.org sites)

Dan-Dare.net

DanDare.org.uk

The Last Airbender online games and wallpaper

M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, "The Last Airbender", which is based on the first season of Nickelodeon's popular cartoon series "Avatar: The Last Airbender", is released here in Thailand tomorrow. (It was released in the US on July 1st and will be released in the UK on August 13th.)

To celebrate the arrival of this highly anticipated film, here are some great free official Avatar: The Last Airbender Flash online games:

  The Last Airbender - Elemental Battles

  The Last Airbender - Trial of Air

  The Last Airbender - Bending Battle

  The Last Airbender - Elemental Escape

  The Last Airbender - Fortress Fight

Included with the games are some lovely Avatar: The Last Airbender film and Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon desktop wallpaper pictures for your computer.

All the above games, together with 100's more film and cartoon-based games, can be found at the Cartoons, Movies and TV Online Games site.

(See also here and here)

The best free Flash online games for you to play.....

For those of you here in Thailand that enjoy playing free Flash online games, here is a selection of the very best character-based online games from the hundreds and hundreds that you can play in the Dan-Dare.org and MarioSonicGames.com websites:

  New Super Mario Flash

  Ultimate Flash Sonic

  Super Smash Bros. Brawl Flash

  Pokemon: Breakdown Blast

  Ben 10: Power Splash

  Naruto: Battle for Leaf Village

  Power Rangers Dino Thunder

  Transformers: Roll Out

  Astro Boy: Blast-A-Bot

  Khan Kluay: Kids War

  Ice Age 3: Bubble Trouble

  Monsters vs. Aliens: Panic in the Streets

  Shrek Shreds Skateboarding

  Disney's Run Bolt Run

  UP: Kevin's Chocogobble

  WALL-E Pinball

  Cars: Tractor Tippin'

  The Incredibles: Top Trumps

  Toy Story: Buzz Lightyear's Alien Rescue

  SpongeBob SquarePants: Anchovy Assault

  Tom and Jerry: Refiger-Raiders

  Scooby-Doo Skateboarding 2

  Wacky Races: Wacky Racing

  A Christmas Carol: Ghostly Adventure

  Star Trek: Flash Trek V2.0

  Gangster Life (GTA II)

I hope you enjoy them all!

(See also here, here and here)

The Inns family's blogs

As I've mentioned before, we are an active blogging family, us Inns's. In addition to this blog by me, Su Inns, my husband Peter runs these three blogs: Peter Inns's WordPress Blog, England, Thailand and Other Things and MarioSonicGames.com - Mario & Sonic Games News.

And now Peter's mother, Anne Inns, has started this blog: Life, stuff and things.

Between the three of us we cover subjects like the latest free movie trailers and film clips, the latest free online games and desktop wallpapers, plus news and views from both England and Thailand.

Popular movie trailers and film clips in YouTube

My husband Peter has been adding lots of new videos to his main YouTube channel recently, and as a result there is now an impressive collection of 180 videos in total. Here are some of the best and most popular ones:

2009 sci-fi and fantasy movie trailers collection

2010 sci-fi and fantasy movie trailers collection

Dan Dare video collection

Harry Potter video collection

Pixar and other CG movie trailers collection

Pixar: Luxo Jr. cartoon collection

Pixar: WALL-E video collection

Pixar: Up video collection

Pixar: Toy Story 1, 2 and 3 video collection

Free online games and wallpaper backgrounds

If you like playing Flash online games and collecting wallpaper pictures for your computer, you might find these two new fully illustrated pages in my husband Peter Inns's blog worth checking out:

Free Online Games

Free Wallpaper Backgrounds

Toy Story 3 online games and wallpaper

Pixar's newest 3D movie, Toy Story 3, is released in North America today. I am really looking forward to seeing it when it is released here in Thailand because I am a huge fan of all the cartoons Pixar produce, although apparently we have to wait until August 12th for its Thai release, which is a very long delay.

It is highly likely that pirate DVDs of the film will be widely available here before then, which of course is a bad thing, but if I may say so it will somewhat serve Pixar right for creating such a long delay in the first place. Surely the best way to stop movie pirating is to release movies simultaneously all around the world?

Anyway, to make up for this rather ridiculous almost two month wait, you can play some great free Toy Story 3 Flash online games here:

16 Toy Story 3 online games

Including these 4 games:

  Buzz Lightyear: Operation Alien Rescue

  Toy Story: Bowl-o-Rama

  Buzz Lightyear: Galactic Shootout

  Toy Story: 2-in-1 Shooting

And you can get some lovely free Toy Story 3 wallpaper background pictures here:

16 Toy Story 3 wallpaper pictures

Including these 12 wallpapers:

1024 x 768 pixels

1280 x 1024 pixels

1600 x 1200 pixels

1024 x 768 pixels

1280 x 1024 pixels

1600 x 1200 pixels

You can find everything above, together with loads more Disney and Pixar fun and games, in this brilliant website: Free Disney and Pixar Online Games

The Bangkok curfew has now been lifted!

Thank goodness for that, maybe we can get back to normal living again now!

This means that the long-running political protests and violent military crackdowns of this year are all now officially over, and therefore Thailand has returned to its peaceful normal self.

So, it is now officially safe for tourists to return here. Please come back and enjoy the real Thailand once again!!

Shrek 4 online games and wallpaper

The latest 3D animated movie from DreamWorks, Shrek Forever After, is released today. The film is the final part of the Shrek series and is also known as Shrek: The Final Chapter and Shrek 4.

I'm not sure if it's any good (it has received mixed reviews so far), but I want to see it because I really liked the first three Shrek films.

Here are six excellent free Shrek 4 Flash online games for you to play:

  Shrek Shreds

  Shrek 'N' Slide

  Shrek: Concentration

  Shrek: The Battle of the Belch

  Shrek: Eyeball Dropper

  Shrek: Ogre Baby Word Scramble

Two Shrek Forever After wallpaper backgrounds are also included with the games, one of Shrek and one of Rumpelstiltskin.

You can find everything above, together with lots more related fun and games, in this awesome website: Free Shrek and Other CG Movie Online Games

(See also here)